In an earlier post “If a picture is worth a thousand words…“, I extolled the virtues of geotagging my Flickr photos and viewing this location by way of a third party web site.  The method I used on that occasion was somewhat manual.

Well, I was searching for a better way and have come across one that is utterly brilliant! Check out Sumaato.net for this incredible ‘bookmarklet’ (a bookmark that actually contains a script).  You won’t believe how simple it is, nor how effective.

Check out this photo (shown at right) for the result.  Note the tags listed and the link under the photo (part of the description field).  Of course to see the brilliance of how you get this information in there, you’ll need to sign up for Flickr yourself.  Go ahead.  It’s free!

If there were a Nobel Prize for software, it should go to this guy.  Having looked at half a dozen alternatives, his is still blowing me away with its superiority.

And yes, I know Flickr have added mapping to their bag of tricks – but they (of course) use Yahoo! Maps which, quite frankly, aren’t up to it for this part of the world.  For example, compare the maps of Paekakariki by Yahoo! and Google.  Both maps are at identical locations (check the links!) and I would have zoomed in a little more but Yahoo! is so lean on detail I needed to back off to be sure I was getting the same place!  Also, Yahoo! gives up after one more zoom level (which adds no detail whatsoever), whereas Google goes in several more levels and names all the streets in the township.